Albert pettingill



A. PETTINGILL.

` CoTToN PICKER,

No. 85,532. patented Jan, 5, 1869.

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Letters PatentNo. 8`5,532, da .tedJenua/ry 5,f1869. v

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The Schedule referred to in thpis Letters Patent'and making part the same.

. To all whom. it may concern:

ere-nee being had to the accompanying drawings, formnpart of this specification, in whichgu're 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Figure 2 is an end elevation ofthe same. 4Figure 3 is a vert-icalsection of one of the cylinders, snowing the shaft, spindles, and gears.

My invention consists of a machine for picking cct-l fen, in which mptiou is imparted to cylinders and spine dles by thev motion of the wheels upon which the machine moves as it-is drawn along the iield.

It also consists in an 'armngcinent o1 devices for winding the cotton from the. bollspn to a set. or sets of spirals; and also ofen arrangement for removing the cotton from the spirals when thus takensfmm the stocks, and wound en to the. spirals.

My machine is contained within ay convenient frame, represented by A in the drawings.

This frame is so constructed as to have a row of the plants between its two'sides it is drawn aloug.- An

illustration of this formation is seen in the endlview in fig. :2. l

The machine is set -upen wheels or trucks, (see a,)

' which revolve upon shaft-s attached to the frame A.'

Upon the inner sides of these wheels are attached 'gears b, which match the gears' c, revolving horizontally.

These gears c match other gears, d, placed at or near the bottoms ofthe cylinders c.

These cylinders are placed vertically in the sides of number, and are, moreover, bgllgw, having within them fixed upright shafts f.

The cylinders ebtaiutheir mot-ion by being rigidly connected -with the gans d.

All the cylinders, such as e, are pierced with holes, through whirhproject the spindles il` fi'tliin the cylinders ethese spindles k are fitted with gyms i, matching each other, as seen in fig.

Thus tin-.cylinders revolve on vertlcal'shafts or axes in horizontal planes, and carry around with them' the spindles h, projecting from their periphery. At the same time the spindles, while leing thus carried around with the cylinders, revolve' ou their own axes in vertical pianos. l

The opi-rn tion of this part of my invention is as fols As thecuiria'w' moves over the ficld, the revolution ci' the omringt f nccls n imparts motion to the gears d,

ihr -ngh thel years t and c, 'as before get forth The cylinders care' thus putin revolution by tle gears d, to whichythy arel rigidly attwhed.

The shafts f have near their lower ends the gears It, and therefore, acs the cylinders go around, and carry with them thespindlcsh, the gears i, matching It, and

matching 'each other, give a rotary motion' tothe spin, dies; Thus, as the carriage moves, those motions continue, and the spindles h, coming in contact with the cotton-boli, and turning as aforesaid, wind out the cot ton from the pod, and carry ,it thus around on'to the outside ofthe machine.

At this place are attached cleaners m, under which the spindles pass, after having come in contact with the cotton on the stalk, and by' these cleaners the cotf ton is pushed oli from the spindles, and drops into the `receiver formed by the guards n, and thus the cotton is taken from'the stalk and deposited in the' machine by the revolution of the cylinders e and the spirals h., as the machine passes along over a rqwoi the plants:

I do not intend to limit myself to the prcci se mechan- 7ism, or arrangement thereo. herein. shown, for it' is apparent-that my machine can be made in various forms, and with a multiplicity of gears and 'cylinders o is a device on the front of the machine, for remov- .ing obstacles from its path.

The machine can be drawn or impelled by any animal power..

The cylindes are omitted in the drawing,l ou one side of fig` 2, for the purpose of showing the gears with more distinctness; but my inventionof course, contemplates two rows or sets of cylinders e,- that is, one ou each sidesof the machine', to operate on each side of a row of cotton-plants.

p show guards over the cari-ieg'ewheels.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, istheflame ofthe machine, and may be of any desiredpurposes-set forth,

3. The combination of wheels a, gears b, geais .,cl, gen-is d, cylinders o, gears if., gears 'i,and spindles h, substantially as and for the purposes described. Q

4. A cotton-picking machine, having the combina# 'tion of the revolving spindles h'and cleaners 'm-, sube s'tantially as set forth. 5. In combination with the cylinders, spindles,and cleaners, the guards n, as described.

ALBERT Plil'lTIlTGlILLV Witnesses: HAnnrs Gsnonnon,

Josnrn Pnr'rlnernrn 

